OSCE: Zaitseve residents have to go to work in Artemivsk through minefield
KYIV. Feb 4 (Interfax) - Residents of the settlement of Zaitseve, which is located on the division line in Donbas, and where a checkpoint was closed due to intensive fire on February 3, have to walk on minefields, Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Alexander Hug said.
The Zaitseve checkpoint was closed due to the escalation of violence, and there is also a threat to close a checkpoint in Stanitsa Luhanska, he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday. He added that Zaitseve residents are saying they now have to walk on a minefield to get to Artemivsk to work.
Hug said some people have recently been hurt in the area.
He said the head doctor from the central hospital in Dzerzhinsk, said two residents from Zaitseve have been treated for shrapnel wounds. They stepped on a trip wire near the checkpoint in Leninskoye, eight km from Zaitseve, Hug said.